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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-06-11 11:22:46 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-06-11 12:48:56 +0200
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tests: update README about servers and port numbers
Closes #7242
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### Test servers
- The test suite runs simple FTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP and TFTP stand-alone
- servers on the ports listed above to which it makes requests. For SSL tests,
- it runs stunnel to handle encryption to the regular servers. For SSH, it
- runs a standard OpenSSH server. For SOCKS4/5 tests SSH is used to perform
- the SOCKS functionality and requires a SSH client and server.
-
- The base port number (8990), which all the individual port numbers are
- indexed from, can be set explicitly using runtests.pl' -b option to allow
- running more than one instance of the test suite simultaneously on one
- machine, or just move the servers in case you have local services on any of
- those ports.
+ The test suite runs stand-alone servers on random ports to which it makes
+ requests. For SSL tests, it runs stunnel to handle encryption to the regular
+ servers. For SSH, it runs a standard OpenSSH server. For SOCKS4/5 tests SSH
+ is used to perform the SOCKS functionality and requires a SSH client and
+ server.
+
+ The listen port numbers for the test servers are picked randomly to allow
+ users to run multiple test cases concurrently and to not collide with other
+ existing services that might listen to ports on the machine.
The HTTP server supports listening on a Unix domain socket, the default
location is 'http.sock'.
@@ -87,6 +85,8 @@
line). The latter is meant for local temporary disables and will be ignored
by git.
+ Test cases mentioned in `DISABLED` can still be run if `-f` is provided.
+
When `-s` is not present, each successful test will display on one line the
test number and description and on the next line a set of flags, the test
result, current test sequence, total number of tests to be run and an